13208 Fraschetti

Fraschetti
Discovery and designation
Discovered by Near Earth Asteroid Tracking
Discovery site Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii.
Discovery date April 5, 1997
Designations
MPC designation 13208
1997 GA38
Orbital characteristics
Epoch January 4, 2010
Aphelion 2.9592076
Perihelion 1.9595818
Eccentricity 0.2032260
1408.7721975
17.40155
Inclination 4.50615
175.81318
138.35220
Physical characteristics
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    13208 Fraschetti is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on April 5, 1997 by the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program at Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii.

    It is named after George Fraschetti (born 1941), a technical advisor and contributor to the NEAT instruments. During his 33 years at the JPL, he has worked on many flagship projects, notably the Voyager and Galileo imaging systems and the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Cameras.

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